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Show STEPS TAKEN TO EXTERMINATE ANARCHY WASHINGTON, DEC. 4. -Mr. Vest of Missouri in the senate today, offered a resolution proposing an inquiry by the committee on judiciary as to the powers of congress to deal with anarchy, to suppress the teaching teach-ing of anarchy and to provide a penal colony for convicted anarchists. The resolution directs the judiciary committee to inquire if congress has power to legislate, for the punishment of anarchists who assassinate or attempt at-tempt to assassinate the president of the United States, and if not, whether it is expedient to amend the federal constitution to enable congress so to legislate. Also whether it is necessary and expedient ex-pedient so to amend the federal constitution, con-stitution, so as to empower congress to prevent by such means as may be deemed necessary the teaching by anarchists an-archists of the doctrine that all governments gov-ernments should be destroyed; also whether it is necessary and expedient so to amend the federal constitution that congress shall have power to punish pun-ish all persons belonging to anarchist associations; also what amendments, if any, are necessary to the naturalization naturaliza-tion laws to prevent the coming into this country of anarchists and their becoming citizens of the United States. Also whether it is necessary or expedient ex-pedient so to amend the federal constitution con-stitution to give congress the power to establish a penal colony on some suitable suit-able island under the jurisdiction of the United States, to which, after trial and conviction, every anarchist holding the doctrine that all governments govern-ments should be destroyed by the as-! as-! sassination of their chief rulers, shall ! be deported, and that the committee, after due examination and inquiry, shall recommend to the senate such amendments to the federal constitution as may be necessary to prevent the teaching and promulgation of an-archial an-archial doctrines in the United States. Senator Hoar today introduced a bill for the protection of the president, which provides as follows: "That any person who shall, within the limits of the United States, or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, there-of, wilfully kill or cause the death of the president of the United States or any officer thereof, or who shall wilfully wil-fully kill or cause the death of the ruler or chief magistrate of any foreign, for-eign, country, shall be punished with death. "That any person who shall, within the limits of the United States, or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, there-of, make an attempt upon the life of the nrociHani f t u . . t . , . r LUC- LjJii-eu otates, or any officer thereof, orwho shall make an attempt on the life of the ruler or chief magistrate of any foreign country shall be punished with death. "That any person who shall, within the limits of the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, there-of, advise the killing of the president of the United States or any officer, or shall conspire to accomplish the same, or who shall advise or counsel the killing kill-ing of the ruler or chief magistrate of any foreign country or shall conspire to accomplish the same, shall be punished pun-ished by imprisonment not exceeding twenty years. "That any person who has conspired as aforesaid may be indicted and convicted con-victed separately, although the other party or parties to the conspiracy are not indicted or convicted. "That any person who shall willfully and knowingly aid In the escape from punishment of any person guilty of either of the acts mentioned in the foregoing sections shall be deemed an accomplice after the fact and shall be punished as if a principal, although the other party or parties to said offense shall not be indicted or convicted." Senator Burrows today introduced a bill to "provide for the exclusion and deportation of alien anarchists." The first section of the bill is as follows: "That no alien anarchistsshall hereafter here-after be permitted to land at any port of the United States or be admitted into the United States; but this prohibition pro-hibition shall not be so construed as to apply to political refugees or political po-litical offender other than such anarchists." anar-chists." The second section directs the special spe-cial board of inquiry authorized by the immigration laws to make diligent investigation in-vestigation concerning the antecedents of any alien seeklng admlssion into the" United States who is Buspected of being an anarchist, authorizing the board to go even to the extent of examining ex-amining the persons of suspected aliens for marks indicative of membership member-ship in anarchistic societies. Section 3 provides for the return of persons to their native countries -who have secured admission to the United States contrary to law, and who have afterward been found to be anarchists. The fourth section provides that when any alien is convicted of crime in a court and it shall appear from the evidence that he is an anarchist, the presiding Judge shall direct a further fur-ther hearing, and if the judge is satisfied satis-fied that the convict alien is an anarchist an-archist or that his remaining in this country will be a menace to the government gov-ernment or society in general, he may direct that in addition to other punishments punish-ments adjudged the convicted alien after undergoing such punishments shall be deported at the expense of the United States to the country from which he came, and if he returns to the United States shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor for a pe-I pe-I riod not exceeding five years and a.ter-I a.ter-I ward again deported. . Provision is made for the appointment appoint-ment of twelve immigration agents at a salary of $2,500 each, to make investigations inves-tigations in foreign countries concerning concern-ing intended immigrants, i The sixth and last section of the bill provides that the fact that an alien has declared his intention to become ia citizen of the United States shall constitute no bar to proceedings against him under this act. |